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/ˈmiːzli/ · adjective
Particularly of pigs or pork: infected with larval tapeworms or trichinae (parasitic roundworms)..
Then take five or six apples, pick out the cores and fill up the holes thus made with flour of brimstone; stop up the holes and cast in the apples to the measly hog.
A measly boy, he looked like a tramp, probably one of the street boys from the village, just walked up here and made himself at home, and when I told him to leave, he wouldn't.
For one whole day's work all I was given was twenty measly pounds.
The visiting tourists eagerly forked over a measly two dollars per group to their guides as payment for their services. This amount was measly sum to the givers, but a princely sum to the takers.
So it wasn't a hotel, as I said in my novel, just a measly motel. But to me it was like the First measly motel, and I remember laughing about the things I was saying straight from my unconscious to both his and God's ear.
Use measly when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Measly means Particularly of pigs or pork: infected with larval tapeworms or trichinae (parasitic roundworms)..
Common synonyms include miserable, paltry, trifling, meager.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Then take five or six apples, pick out the cores and fill up the holes thus made with flour of brimstone; stop up the holes and cast in the apples to the measly hog.
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